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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

1.

FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

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2.

SECOND VOLUME POEMS AND EPIGRAMS.

FROM THE PHOCÆANS.

POEMS AND EPIGRAMS CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF 1846.

POEMS FROM PERICLES AND ASPASIA AND OTHER PROSE WORKS.

FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.

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FROM DRY STICKS.

I.

II.

II. MACAULAY'S PEERAGE.

III.

IV.

IV. TO A CYCLAMEN.

V.

V. TO THE CYCLAMEN.

VI.

VI. HEART'S-EASE.

VII.

VII. HOW TO READ ME.

VIII.

VIII. APOLOGY FOR GEBIR.

IX.

IX. DEATH OF THE DAY.

X.

X. ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH.

XI.

XI. GORE-HOUSE LEFT FOR PARIS.

XII.

XII. THE THREE ROSES.

XIII.

XIII. THE LAST GIFT.

XIV.

XIV. LA PENSIEROSA.

XV.

XV. THE FIG-TREES OF GHERARDESCA.

HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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IX. DEATH OF THE DAY.

My pictures blacken in their frames
As night comes on,
And youthful maids and wrinkled dames
Are now all one.

Death of the day! a sterner Death
Did worse before;
The fairest form, the sweetest breath,
Away he bore.